Epidemiological studies on Habu-Bite in Ryukyu Archipelago

Abstract

Analysis of the data collected from the patients bitten by the Habu, Trimeresurus flavoviridis (Hallowell), were carried out with the cooperations of Naha, Goza, Nago and Yaeyama Health Center in Ryukyu and Nase Health Center in Amamioshima. Results obtained from analysis of those data, such as seasonal occurrence of patients, places and time of bite, age and sex of patients, part of bite, clinical data and therapies etc. are described and epidemiological conclusions are done in this paper.